Portal:Volcanoes
 A volcano is an opening, or rupture, in a planet's surface or crust, which allows hot, molten rock, ash, and gases to escape from below the surface. Violent explosive eruptions from such vents often produce craters or calderas and coat extensive areas in volcanic ash, while the lava from comparatively gentle effusive eruptions may eventually form large plains, cones or mountains. Volcanoes are generally found where tectonic plates are pulled apart or come together. A mid-oceanic ridge, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, hosts volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates pulling apart; the Pacific Ring of Fire contains many volcanoes caused by convergent tectonic plates coming together. By contrast, volcanoes are not commonly created at transform boundaries, where two tectonic plates slide past one another. Volcanoes can be caused by mantle plumes. The resulting hotspots, for example at Hawaii, can occur far from plate boundaries. Hotspot volcanoes are also found elsewhere in the solar system, especially on rocky planets and moons. Intraplate volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the Earth's crust, as in the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field and the Rio Grande Rift in North America and the European Rhine Graben with its Eifel volcanoes. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Box-header/colours' not found.  Volcanoes in Indonesia are a part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. The 150 entries in the list below are grouped into six geographical regions, four of which belong to the volcanoes of the Sunda Arc trench system. The remaining two groups are volcanoes of Halmahera, including its surrounding volcanic islands, and volcanoes of Sulawesi and the Sangihe Islands. The latter group is in one volcanic arc together with the Philippine volcanoes. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Box-header/colours' not found.  He was the second son of J. Poulett Thompson of Waverley Abbey, Surrey. He was educated at Harrow, and for a short time at Pembroke College, Oxford, but in 1816 he entered St John's College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1821. Through the influence of Edward Clarke and Adam Sedgwick became interested in mineralogy and geology. During the winter of 1816–1817 he visited Naples, and was so keenly interested in Vesuvius that he started studying the volcano in 1818; and in the following year visited Etna and the Lipari Islands. In 1821 he began his study of the volcanic regions of central France. In 1825 he published Considerations on Volcanos, and in the following year was elected FRS. In 1827 he issued his classic Memoir on the Geology of Central France, including the Volcanic formations of Auvergne, the Velay and the Vivarais, a quarto volume illustrated by maps and plates. The substance of this was reproduced in a revised and somewhat more popular form in The Geology and extinct Volcanos of Central France (1858). These books were the first widely published descriptions of the Chaîne des Puys, a chain of over 70 small volcanoes in the Massif Central. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Box-header/colours' not found.
 Core topics: Volcano • Volcanology • Igneous petrology • Lava • Magma • Decade Volcanoes • List of volcanoes • Plate tectonics • Hotspot Types of volcanoes: Fissure vent • Shield volcano • Lava dome • Cinder cone • Stratovolcano • Supervolcano • Submarine volcano • Subglacial volcano • Mud volcano Types of eruptions: (Overview) • Strombolian • Vulcanian • Peléan • Hawaiian • Surtseyan • Plinian • Submarine • Subglacial • Phreatic Template:/box-footer
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View of the summit fissure created by the explosive 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera in New Zealand. Deteriorating scoria cliffs surround the rift. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Box-header/colours' not found. <templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />
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